darkblue
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Sorry about your daughter's break up, darkblue, that's really rough. Songs like this are something to hold on to, and can help. I hope she knows it will get better.
And yes, how refreshing to see real women for a change, not the usual video vixens.
She's doing great. She gave this punk every chance in the world to grow up but he couldn't do it. 32 years old, still trying to make a living at IT - still living with his parents and saving nothing. Meanwhile my 30 year-old kid is a licenced professional, has a position with a University, is a full partner in a private therapy practice - counselling families and couples and individuals, and owns her own Condo in North Toronto (well, carrying a mortgage anyway).
Trust me - she's in good shape. She ended it finally when she just couldn't take another of his selfish tantrums. I'm really glad to see her finally move on from that brat. And when I spoke to her a few days ago, she said she was feeling pretty darn good about having liberated herself from his accusing, self-serving nature.
So, it's already better.
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Personally, I don't buy into the theory that today's mainstream media is controlled by liberals.
Reminds me of the stupid opinion I read somewhere around here that "Liberal messaging" is the same thing as how Conservative morality-mongers ruled the movie industry for 30 years.
As if we're supposed to believe that the cops will seize property, close theatres, jail people, for showing something too Conservative nowadays.
There's no comparison about the amount of control that was forced upon society back then to the freedom to be as truthful with one's art as one wishes to be from 1970 to the present.
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Guy Maddin's 'The Saddest Music in the World' (2003).
Peculiar, fascinating movie, featuring some international actors along with homegrown Canadians in a story about a beautiful beer queen who has no legs (Isabella Rossellini) who hosts a competition in Winnipeg to find which nation has the saddest music.
Truly a unique film.
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ANGELS IN AMERICA (HBO two-part movie)
Brilliant 2 parter.
What a cast! What performances from that cast!
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Has anyone mentioned "nix"?
As in "nix on that" or "nix that"?
I remember Bogart saying it in 'The Petrified Forest' when he was reminded that he was supposed to kill Leslie Howard. I believe he said "Nix on that, pal".
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The subway sandwich guy is in trouble and in the news. He also looks like he went off of subway sandwiches.
The executive in charge of the campaign ads was found to have illegal porn (child?) in his possession. Apparently that was used to conduct a search of Jarred's property as well. I don't believe Jarred has been charged with any crime, though.
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Interesting to know. Sounds like there might be some room for it to be more of a "psychological thriller" (Hitchcock) than an actual horror movie. And that is figuring in a bit of slack along the way, in 1950s currency.
It's really a movie that belongs to the 30's/40's in both style and substance. A throwback to the Universal horror era output. It's like a 1941 movie but made in 1956.
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I was gonna crack about your aversion to using soap and water in your ears, but I'll admit that it may take a listen or two to capture her diction completely. As for the other criticisms - "scantily created, uninspired music" - not much point in arguing with someone who knows nothing about the qualities of a really good song.
For anyone else who would like to know what's being sung, here are the lyrics. Reading them while listening reveals everything - and once you're aware, the song (and video) just gets better with each listen. I love the r&b arrangement with just a hint of country. And it's so nice to see real women in a video for a change.
I was taking every hit from you
you drive by shooting son of a ****and I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm doneWho told you you could rewrite the rules
and do you really take me for a god *amn fool
'cause I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm doneAnd you can drag me out before some authority
If that's what you have to do to feel like you can punish me
but I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs, with your dogs, at my doorYou've been punching my weaknesses, slandering my name
you spent all your time trying to place your blameand I'm done
Ohhh, I'm doneI used to think I hold the best parts of me,
but sew the holes in your life and the cracks in your seams
and I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done.And I'm sorry that you don't like your life
I fought for my own victories and for the beauty in my life
My joy, my joy, my joy takes nothing from you
no, my joy, my joy takes nothing from youWell, you criticize my numbers, you hammer out the rules
wait for me to **** up, and find yourself some proof
and I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done.You just soak in the hatred of a sorry line
yeah, you hide behind decorum and a fake smile
and I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm doneAnd you can drag me out before a judge in authority
if that's what you have to do to feel like you can punish me
but I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymoreWith your doubts, with your doubts, in my door
Well I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs, with your dogs, at my door -
My kid recently broke up with her boyfriend of nearly 5 years. Last week she heard this on the CBC station while she was driving and she said it just seemed to leap out at her. As soon as she got home she looked up the video and sent it to me. Terrific song.
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I shall thwart such an ignominious decomposition...
Speaking of decomposition - I understand that a very rare print containing the extra couple of seconds of Dracula's decomposition in the Hammer version was found in Japan.
Do you know if this footage has made it into any new releases of the movie?
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Tribes (1970) starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Darren McGavin, and Earl Holliman. Perfect timing for the hippie joins the Marines, troubles ensue, plot. Very popular at the time, likely because of that perfect timing. I think I saw this when it first aired, but haven't seen it since.
Really fun one, that. I love the scene where Vincent goes into a Zen trip while holding up pails of cement and McGavin gives him hell.
Boy, that Vincent was ripped. Too bad about turning into such a drunk.
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pretty pretty.
Seems to be doing her best Ann-Margret in that one.
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To me Elliot Gould is a grungy '60s'-early '70s style of "star" that happens to have a spectacular lack of appeal for me.
I like Elliot Gould a great deal. He's very natural and very cool. His persona is kind of restrained - very pleasant to watch. Those are nice qualities in an actor.
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Cool... I actually recorded those, but just haven't accounted for them yet. Also I see Zombies On Broadway in there too.
It sounds like Empire Of The Ants was as much a real-life horror for Joan Collins as it was on film. Also I like anything with Ray Milland, so X: should be good.
I managed to get 'The Black Sleep' from a TCM showing a couple of years ago. It was one of those long sought after movies after some 50 years - since I'd caught the last 10 minutes of it way back in 1961 and had nightmares because of it.
Turns out, the last 10 minutes was all the good there was. The rest was pretty s-l-o-w.
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If you relate to Elliot Gould as Marlowe, you have my condolences.
Why condolences? Congratulations would be more appropriate. It means I'm a lot more discriminating than most.
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But this wasn't initially a thread about the studio system vs New Hollywood or modern films. It was a post about the Long Goodbye.
Yes - and as I said, I much prefer 'The Long Goodbye' to every other Marlowe movie. It plays much better - more natural - more believable - more relatable. Just like it usually is with modern movies when compared to studio-era movies.
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Your having 6,711 posts here makes about as much sense as my joining a rap board and posting there 6,711 times about how much I hate it.
But I love movies. I'm just honest - and realistic - about them.
A primitive, constrained and inexperienced industry naturally produced mostly primitive and constrained movies. Everything gets better with experience, innovation and freedom of choice.
Maybe you should join a rap board. Your hate might go over better there.
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But what exactly is your purpose in putting down films from the studio era on a board where a large population enjoys those films? It seems pretty pointless to me.
My purpose is to express what I think and how I feel about movies. What's yours? Do you have a fundamental need for everyone to share the same reaction to them as you?
So I don't think very many studio-era movies hold up very well. So what? Is your insistence that they do any less - as you put it, pointless - than my opinion that they don't?
Please learn how to take disagreement without questioning another member's motives. We're all equally free to post our thoughts here.
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And personally I don't see much actual realism in the "New Hollywood" films either.
At least people talk like real people rather than cartoon caricatures or memorized stage soliloquists.
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That's why they don't hold up?
They don't hold up to you maybe
If they hold up for you, that's wonderful for you.
The number that are still relatable to me would be probably fewer than 2 percent. I grew up with them, but realized very young what nonsense most of them were. My buddies all liked John Wayne movies. Even as a child, those bored the hell out of me. Same with Gable, Flynn, Ladd and pretty much all those pretend "actors". And the happy ending, crime never pays, men have al the patience in the world for listening to long, long speeches from their oh so earnest love interests productions were never convincing to me at all. I never saw anyone in real life act or speak like people in movies. My dumb-a$$ friends might've thought it was all good, but I longed for some truth - something interesting.
Lon Chaney Junior, for all the low-budget shlock he was forced to be in to make his living, had more natural acting talent in him than all those carefully manufactured studio one-noted macho men put together.
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Just to be clear, when you say "Golden Age", what specific years are you referring to?
The "Golden Age of Hollywood" is so-called that because it represents a period of time when the industry was at its most powerful in terms of talent contracts and exhibition policy, while being overseen by Conservative social-engineering watchdogs who decided for everyone what was permissible as subject matter or "message" content. It also represents an industry still in its childhood, producing stagey-acted stories that were "bigger than life". That's why they don't hold up - dialogue is spoken too quickly, too loudly, too articulately perfect for belief. There's no blood, no intimacy, no cussing, no realness - and anybody who would actually speak in real life the way a Bogart or Cagney speaks in movies would've been laughed off the street and/or had their a$$es kicked with regularity. People today recognize that silly affected nonsense for what it is - phony.
Once movie-makers were allowed to start making movies that represented actual truths of living, then the long-stunted childhood ended. And "The Golden Age of Hollywood" came to its very welcome end - to be replaced by The (Choose Your Element) Age of Cinema.
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What does the 'MOW' acronym stand for?
Movie of the week. Each of the 3 networks had at least one per week.
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Turned it off after the first hour. I was bored.
That's how I react to 98 percent of so-called "Golden Age of Holywood" productions.
Phony boring nonsense for yesterday's children.
I'm eternally grateful to the Supreme Court for finally allowing movie-making to grow up.
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Never cared much for the Marlowe character. Always seemed phony - made up nonsense (like the bullsh!t movies of John Wayne). Hollywood product for a Conservative-indoctrinated audience.
'The Long Goodbye' is exceptional, though. Loved that update - far and away my favorite Marlowe.
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Off Topic: Favorite Music?
in Your Favorites
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At first I thought he was just a novelty-song clown, but then I heard "Funny Man" in 1963 and realized there was more than that.
In 1968, he released an album called "Even Stevens" that featured all-original compositions, produced by Fred Foster (Orbison's producer throughout his Monument years). Some critics were calling Stevens a veritable genius back then.
In any case, he's a gifted vocalist - never more so than when he gets serious.